i have had my ipod for a few months now and never had problems with it before. but all of a sudden itunes is making my head want to expode.

first of, i bought my first album off itunes about 3 weeks ago. i am aware that you need to authorize the comp before music can be played on it. So i click on the song i just bought, and it asks me to enter password etc, says 'accessing music store' blah blah, and then says congratulations you have authorized 1 of 5 comps (or something along those lines). so i click OK. Then i get 'we could not complete your music store request, an unknown error orrured (-208) please try later.

i have been trying later for 3 weeks now and i always get that message. if anyone else has had that prob or knows how to fix it i would really appreiceate some advice. xx

my second problem may just be me being a bit of a nonce, but i bought an external harddrive the other day as my comp is only like 30GB and i have loadsa music. So i put all my music on that, i changed the folder location to e: drive (ext HD)and changed my preferences to manually manage songs, as i thought if i did it automatically it would get rid of my playlists(which are still on my ipod but not on my library)

but now i cant figure how to update my ipod with new albums i just bought. i thought it would just be file/update ipod, but thats in grey (as in you cant click on it) and i dunno why. it has been driving me nuts, and i really hope someone can help me, becasue i an pretty close to chucking my ipod out the window!